Date: 8 December 2015
Donald Trump’s call for a blanket ban on Muslims visiting America raises questions over whether the UK should consider barring him from the UK on hate speech grounds, writes Sunder Katwala
Date: 2 December 2015
Chancellor George Osborne has indicated that he would support moves to stop counting international students in the government’s net migration […]
Date: 26 November 2015
Net migration his another high today, yet further from the government’s target. Surely it’s now time to set out a plan on net migration?
Date: 18 November 2015
Tonight’s England-France game at Wembley, and the singing by both sets of supporters of the French anthem La Marseillaise, was an important moment of solidarity and resolve from two nations, writes Steve Ballinger
Date: 16 November 2015
The horrific murders in Paris shocked us all. Let us come together to show solidarity with the French people – and show that terrorists will not divide us.
Date: 12 November 2015
London biker Anton on the Ring of Red Ride and the honour of supplying motorbike outriders for the Remembrance parade to the Tottenham Cenotaph
Date: 11 November 2015
Scots on both sides of the independence debate will come together to mark the two minutes’ Armistice Day silence, according to British Future research.
Date: 9 November 2015
Independent, non-partisan thinktank British Future is looking to recruit an ambitious individual for a 6-month paid intern position.
Date: 30 October 2015
Trump risks toxifying US Republicans but with the populist challenge coming from outside the party, UK Conservatives needn’t fear death by demographics, write Frank Sharry and Sunder Katwala
In Control and Compassion @britishfuture proposed bringing back civic and faith-led voluntary returns programme that would be humane & cost effective. NB, crucially, this is on the basis of hearing asylum claims in the UK first, not refusing to take asylum claims here.
Times splash is Labour repeating its policy since at last last Autumn: have to assess asylum claims here. Government does this too, after saying it won't be doing it & will have to do it again (for everyone it can't remove) if flights ever start
Sept2023
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/13/starmer-on-tour-solutions-migration-crisis#:~:text=Keir%20Starmer%20has%20revealed%20that,gangs%E2%80%9D%20behind%20small%20boat%20crossings
Visas issued to skilled workers, health and care staff and students have fallen by a quarter compared with last year, writes @matt_dathan @thetimes
Immigration levels falling after visa curbs
Visas issued to skilled workers, health and care staff and students have fallen by a quarter compared with last year
www.thetimes.co.uk
This was always going to be a febrile week for political leadership. My Eastern Eye column on Humza Yousaf's emotional departure & whether Sadiq Khan and Rishi Sunak will survive the next fortnight https://www.easterneye.biz/scotland-humza-yousaf-resign-sunder-katwala/
Our @sundersays will be speaking to @SkyNews at 5.30-6 about the Rwanda scheme and the government's latest challenges to operationalise the policy
More than half of asylum seekers allocated for removal to Rwanda cannot be found, according to...
The first deportation flights to Rwanda are planned for this July, which indicates no one who arrived in Britain ...
news.sky.com
“Yousaf’s downfall had as little to do with his ethnicity or faith as Liz Truss’s had to do with her gender,” writes @sundersays for @EasternEye
Scots shock kicks off a febrile week in UK politics - EasternEye
By Sunder Katwala
www.easterneye.biz
Rachel Chinouriri, 25, talks to the BBC on why she wanted to include England and its flag on her album cover, referencing "my upbringing, my home, my life". (BBC also quotes Kehinde Andrews criticising her choice because he doesn't like it himself)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-68848509
As royal assent is granted today to the Rwanda Bill, a poll shows only a third of Tory voters believe the deportation plan will succeed in stopping migrants crossing the Channel. @SuellaBraverman @RobertJenrick https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/25/rwanda-policy-wont-stop-the-boats-tory-voters-say/
Read the report here:
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/governments-illegal-migration-act-and-rwanda-plan-to-cause-system-meltdown-costing-billions/
New @refugeecouncil analysis today projects that even if Rwanda removals do start, the Illegal Migration Act will leave over 115,000 people stuck in limbo, "shut out of the asylum system but unable to be removed from the country" at a potential annual cost of £6.2 Billion.
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